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Topic #2: The Soviet Era (p. 425-429)

L (What did you learn? Take notes as you read; answer your questions):

• WWII Russia suffered many defeats
• 1917 people forced Czar Nicholas II to give up his thrown
• soviet means a local council elected only by manual workers, with certain powers of local administration
• 2 super powers are USSR and United States
• Lenin led Russia into the revolution
• USSR collapse was in 1991
• in 1914 war broke out between Russia and Germany
• Russians were not prepared for the war
• it was when Russians and German armies met and fought many battles Russia had a feew winnings and many losses
• 1922---- Russia's Communist leaders had power... In the same year U.S.S.R was made
• 1924-- Lenin died {the head}...few years went by and finally Joseph Stalin became the leader
• Joseph Stalin--- government took over all farming, 5 year plan to industrialize, many cities grew, government took over economy
• people who did not like them went to the jails in Siberia
• 1941--- cold war, US and Russia were fighting... ethnic groups wanted to leave
• 1985-- Mikhail Gorbachev wanted to do the opposite of the others...collapsed
• late 1991--- the Soviet Union broke apart
• In 1917, political leaders, soldiers, and factory workers forced Czar Nicholas II to give up the throne.
• Russia was a communist state -- a country whose government has strong control over the economy and society as a whole
• In 1922, Russia's communist leaders were securely in power.
• 1922 was the year that the Soviet Union was born and started to grow
• The Russia Revolution was a war in 1917